Tag: Clemson

SEC Predictions for Week 1

Last week was Week 0. Yeah, we saw a B1G match-up between Nebraska and Illinois, as well as UCLA putting a beating on Hawaii, but that was about it. But this week is where the big guns come in, and every team comes and flexes their muscles. As usual, we’re going by games that interest us the most. And weirdly Alabama – is in the Top 3. No.5 Georgia vs No.3 Clemson (-3, O/U 51.5) (Charlotte): This is a game that everyone’s been excited about since it came on the schedule last year. And although Georgia’s ranked No.5 and Clemson’s ranked No.3, these are two bona fide National Championship favorites. And both have the chance to run the table if

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The SEC loves black players, hates black head coaches

  If I’m an Auburn fan, I wouldn’t understand why my team didn’t even bother interviewing Tony Elliott. Tony Elliott has been in charge of one of the biggest, brightest offenses in college football for 2015-2019, and has coached NFL star in Deshaun Watson, and the next NFL star in Trevor Lawrence. He’s been a master – and has been prettily paid for it by one of college football’s most elite programs. It’s easy to see why Elliott wasn’t even interviewed. The excuse from Greene (who by the way, is African-American) will be that he didn’t bother interviewing anybody, instead of going straight for Boise State’s Brian Harsin – a move which pissed off the already-crazed Auburn booster base. But

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SEC East Schedule: Georgia vs Clemson leads the way

It’s Christmas morning. The SEC has released it’s 2021 Football Schedule. Here’s the one for the East. There’s a big game in Charlotte to open the season….. FLORIDA Sept. 4 FLORIDA ATLANTIC Sept. 11 at South Florida Sept. 18 ALABAMA Sept. 25 TENNESSEE Oct. 2 at Kentucky Oct. 9 VANDERBILT Oct. 16 at LSU Oct. 30 vs. GEORGIA (Jacksonville) Nov. 6 at South Carolina Nov. 13 SAMFORD Nov. 20 at Missouri Nov. 27 FLORIDA STATE GEORGIA Sept. 4 vs. Clemson (Charlotte) Sept. 11 UAB Sept. 18 SOUTH CAROLINA Sept. 25 at Vanderbilt Oct. 2 ARKANSAS Oct. 9 at Auburn Oct. 16 KENTUCKY Oct. 30 vs. Florida (Jacksonville) Nov. 6 MISSOURI Nov. 13 at Tennessee Nov. 20 CHARLESTON SOUTHERN Nov. 27

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100 things that I love about College Football

Kevin Duffey of Saturday Down South wrote an amazing article about 100 things that he loved about college football, and I felt inspired. So here’s a 100 things that I love about college football (including, of course, the SEC!). And this is no particular order. That college football came back after it looked like COVID-19 would shut it all down. College Gameday. That moment when it starts, and you get the ‘Welcome to….” and you take a deep breath and get excited, very quickly. At last, your Saturday is starting. Fox’s show is fine, but Gameday is Gameday. Rivalry games. No.1 best rivalry title? “The Holy War” (Utah vs BYU), although ‘The Civil War’ and “Good, Ole Fashioned-Hate” comes close. “Red

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Big Ten, Pac-12, ACC are moving to Conference-only games

And so the dominos continue to fall. According to multiple media sources, the Big Ten, ACC and Pac-12 have all decided that they will play a nine-game conference-only season It is an effort to cut down the season and make it work, as well as give schools some wiggle-room if there an outbreak of COVID-19 on teams and campuses. For the SEC a bunch of non-conference games will be affected, including (sadly), Clemson vs South Carolina, Georgia vs Georgia Tech, Louisville vs Kentucky and Florida State vs Florida. Notre Dame have been told that the ACC will accommodate Notre Dame in its own schedule. For the Big Ten the biggest match-ups being lost are Notre Dame’s game with Wisconsin, Penn

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An extremely early preview of Georgia vs Clemson 2021

It’s a steamy August night, and one side of Bank of America stadium’s orange, and the other side’s red. Georgia’s coming off another year of not winning a National Championship, and Clemson’s just celebrated another one, beating Ohio State in a firecracker of a game. Now they get together to start the 2021 College Football season. It’s the game that everyone’s been talking about since the National Championship ended in January. Some might say that the powers-that-be in the SEC should have gotten this game earlier, by giving a ton of money to Clemson to move to the SEC East, and forgetting about Missouri altogether. Still, it didn’t happen, and the rest is history. Anyway, the present. Both sets of

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National Championship Game Preview: The Battle Between Two Tigers

On January 13th, 2020, we will see the battle. Shere Khan versus Tigger. One Death Valley against another. A recently-awoken sleeping giant from the State where Laissez Les Bons Temps Roulee isn’t so much a catchphrase as a way of being against the perennial joke that’s now put the joke on others. It’s ACC vs SEC. It’s the battle between two recruiting powerhouses. Two well-liked coaches in Ed Orgeron and Dabo Swinney. Two high-octane offenses, featuring one quarterback who was a pretty much an afterthought this season, but exploded into a Heisman winner, a feature on the front cover of Sports Illustrated, a future Top-5 round pick, and the God of one of the most spellbinding offenses college football has ever seen.

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Will Kelly Bryant stay after Missouri’s punishment?

The biggest question stemming from the NCAA’s recent announcement that Missouri would be banned from the 2019 postseason is: Will Kelly Bryant stay with the Tigers? The bylaws allow him to transfer without penalty, so he could take off and start at one of Missouri’s SEC rivals immediately. Although Missouri is in a powerhouse division with Georgia and a revamped Florida, the arrival of Bryant signalled to Missouri programs that the team was on the up-and-up – maybe towards a New Year’s Six Bowl Game. However, with the rules of a postseason ban, the only non-regular season game the transfer from Clemson will see will be on his TV. Sources are saying that Bryant will stay, but unless Bryant makes

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Tua got beaten by a surfer boy last night

It wasn’t his father who gave Tua the belt on Monday night – it was the Clemson defense. Tua’s first interception – a pick-six – was awful enough, and his second quarter interception was even worse than that. In the end, he finished 22-34 with 296 yards, 2 TDs and 2 INTs, and was pulled before the game ended. His replacement Jalen Hurts (0-2, 0 yards and -4 yards rushing) wasn’t good either, as he – like the man he replaced- struggled to deal with an on-fire Brent Venables defense, starring Christian Wilkins. And like the horror show 4th-and-6 trick play, it didn’t come off. This was supposed to be the crowning of Tua Tagovailoa. But it wasn’t.  Tua had

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